15 of Boris Johnson's most calamitous mistakes and embarrassing gaffes

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : The inevitable finally having happened draws a line under three years of a frequently farcical premiership, which saw Mr Johnson deliver a rather shabby interpretation of Brexit, lead the country through the worst of the global coronavirus pandemic and lend vital support to Ukraine but otherwise suffer controversy after controversy.
60% : During a visit to India early in 2017, Mr Johnson appeared to accuse the EU of wanting to inflict Nazi-style "punishment beatings" on the UK because of Brexit.
47% : "It seems absolutely incredible to me that, in the 21st century, member states of the EU should be seriously contemplating the reintroduction of tariffs or whatever to administer punishment to the UK."
45% : During a 2017 select committee hearing the then-foreign secretary erroneously said Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - still detained in Iran - was training journalists in the region.
43% : He waved the fish during a rant about "pointless, expensive, environmentally damaging" EU regulations, claiming that Brussels bureaucracy had "massively" increased costs for fish suppliers because of rules saying that their products must be transported in ice.

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